Jakarta - Indonesian police have captured a suspected terrorist of a South-East Asian group allegedly allied with the al-Qaeda terrorist network, a national police spokesman said Sunday. The man identified as Mahfud, alias Yusron, was arrested on Saturday in Kemranjen village in Central Java district of Banyumas, after being shot in the leg during a police raid.
National police spokesman Inspector General Sisno Adiwinoto said the suspect was believed to be a close aide of Abu Dujana, who is accused of heading a new military arm of South-East Asian terrorist network Jemaah Islamiyah (JI). Indonesian authorities said Abu Dujana has replaced Malaysian explosives' expert Noordin M Top as the nation's most-wanted fugitive. He narrowly escaped a police raid in March.
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MI6 probes UK link to nuclear trade with Iran
Sunday June 10, 2007
A British company has been closed down after being caught in an apparent attempt to sell black-market weapons-grade uranium to Iran and Sudan, The Observer can reveal. Anti-terrorist officers and MI6 are now investigating a wider British-based plot allegedly to supply Iran with material for use in a nuclear weapons programme. One person has already been charged with attempting to proliferate 'weapons of mass destruction'.
During the 20-month investigation, which also involved MI5 and Customs and Excise, a group of Britons was tracked as they obtained weapons-grade uranium from the black market in Russia. Investigators believe it was intended for export to Sudan and on to Iran.
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Syrian arms dealer held in Spain
June 08, 2007
Spanish police have arrested a Syrian arms dealer suspected of supplying weapons to leftist Colombian fighters. Monzer al-Kassar was arrested at Madrid airport on Thursday evening, the Spanish interior ministry said. US authorities are seeking the extradition of al-Kassar and two other men arrested in Romania.
The arrest of al-Kassar has "finally brought one of the world's most prolific arms traffickers to justice", Michael Garcia, US attorney, said on Friday. Al-Kassar is accused of selling millions of dollars worth of weapons to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), a group classified in the US as a terrorist organisation. The two other men, Tareq Mousa al Ghazi and Luis Filipe Moreno Godoy, were arrested as part of the same investigation.
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THANK YOU Oorang.
All very interesting.
CHTOURA, Lebanon: Lebanese security forces arrested yesterday three suspected Al Qaeda members, including a Belgian, in the eastern Bekaa Valley, security sources said.
The sources said a Belgian and a Lebanese man were arrested in a raid in the village of Ba’labaya. In Brussels, a foreign ministry spokesman said the Belgian embassy in Lebanon was aware that a man who “had Belgian papers on him” was arrested.
Another Lebanese man, found with weapons, was arrested in the nearby village of Bar Elias, where earlier this week security forces dismantled what they described as an Al Qaeda cell preparing for car bomb attacks in Lebanon. They also seized weapons and explosives and at least nine people have now been arrested in connection with the cell, security sources said.
In the Bekaa village of Al-Khiyara, security forces confiscated “important documents” from three houses, they said. The threat of Sunni Muslim militancy is on the rise in Lebanon.